Safeguarding Specialist

3 months ago


Coventry, United Kingdom Cadent Gas Full time

**Safeguarding Specialist**
**Hybrid Working with travel to Pilot Way, Ansty Park, Coventry CV7 9JU**
**Permanent**

**£50,905.**00 - **£59,888.00**

Develop your career as a Safeguarding Specialist safe in the knowledge that what you do is important, highly valued and will, ultimately leave a lasting legacy.

**About the Role**
Reporting directly to the Customer Service Manager, our Safeguarding Specialist is accountable for working with, enhancing and creating new partner organisations to ensure that we can deliver our wide range of services to customers living in vulnerable situations, as well as working within our business to promote the services we offer and ensure training and awareness to all our staff.

Our Safeguarding Specialist will also be required to lay the foundations of the GD2 plan for 2021 and ensure that we have partnerships, supply chains and agreements in place to hit the ground running as we reach April 2021. They must fully understand Cadent’s services and products, understand of the needs of the diverse community we support and be able to communicate this across Cadent, our partners, our customers and stakeholders.

Our Safeguarding Specialist will also accountable for delivering a lead on certain Social programmes; utilizing account management and partnership agreements to ensure that maximum benefit for both Cadent, our customers and our partners is leveraged.

**Alongside the above you’ll be responsible for**:

- Supporting in the design, development, planning, budgeting and implementation of the Social Programme Strategy
- Helping to shape the external Brand of Cadent through the delivery of Cadent’s Vulnerability & Social Strategy
- Managing Cadent’s relationships with various stakeholders and partners participating in both Cadent and regional initiatives to determine and shape the future needs of our customers and the development of future services
- Overseeing the partner portfolio, with specific reference to the identification of strategic partners and building and maintaining these relationships
- Supporting the management of the relationship with our fuel poor delivery partners and ensure delivery against the OFGEM agreed targets
- Designing and managing Cadent’s personalised welfare provision to ensure that the provision is appropriate and beneficial to Cadent’s customers, especially those living in vulnerable situations

**About You**
You will hold the following skills, knowledge and qualifications:

- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, highly impactful influencing and persuasion skills
- Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills; able to understand complex issues and translate them into simple, workable actions and plans
- Ability to think strategically, work creatively, effectively and in an innovative manner
- Able to be self-motivated and work on their own initiative
- Knowledge of social programs
- Politically astute, with a good understanding of key external organisations, how they operate and make decisions
- Clear understanding of the needs of customers living in vulnerable situations
- Commitment to and knowledge of creating a partner-led operational environment, with an ability to create an internal Cadent approach that is focussed on developing and supporting partner organisations to achieve direct impact and results relating to Cadent’s objectives

**What’s In It For You**

Here at Cadent, we are committed to supporting our employees to get the best out of themselves. For this role in particular we can offer:
Funding and support towards your professional accreditation

Ample opportunity for progression within the business

Mentoring and guidance opportunities

**Benefits**
- We offer a host of benefits to suit your lifestyle and support your well-being. These include:_

Annual bonus

Pension Scheme double matched up to a total of 18% of salary (i.e., employee contributions of up to 6%, double matched by a Cadent contribution of up to 12%)

25 days holiday, plus statutory days, and an option to buy more

Fantastic career development prospects with funded learning options, including support with exams, and internal and external learning and development

Strong focus on supporting you as an individual including:

- hybrid working
- flexible working
- strong commitments to ED&I
- generous family provision policies

Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, insurance, and healthcare packages, plus much more

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2 paid volunteering days per year

Free gym access at the Ansty office, as well as a ‘Gympass’ scheme providing free or heavily subsidised local gym memberships

We want our employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working options with you if the role can accommodate it. Let us know about your flexibility requirements, whether that be reduced hours,



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